Media to discover economic nationalism

One wonders whether corporate types have really given much thought to who, exactly, will be able to afford to buy their products when Americans are all out of work. I suppose they figure that the Indians and Chinese will pick up the slack, and they will finally have outsourced consumerism, as well.

I often think of Henry Ford, who was no saint, but who realized that if he wanted to stay in business he had to pay his workers enough to enable them to afford to buy the cars they were making. (Sometimes I think that Wal-Mart operates on a what I call a "reverse Henry Ford" strategy: it pays its workers so little that they can't afford to shop anywhere but Wal-Mart.)

They are sending it to people who are the metaphor for all human stupidity? No wonder writing is so bad these days.

Wendell Berry has a line in "What Are People For?" something to the effect of when economists talk about how good it is, really, overall, to send American jobs overseas, they never mention that the jobs of economists should be outsourced. And that was probably written at least 15 years ago.

Just a correction - it's *Bangaloreans* (as in people from the southern Indian city of Bangalore - an established outsourcing hub), not Bangladeshis (as in people from the country of Bangladesh, east of India). I realize this is a blog so mistakes will happen, but I thought I'd point this out.

I would also caution against calling 150 million people a "metaphor for all human stupidity". There are American citizens of South Asian descent reading this blog, too (like yours truly - and even agree with many of the ideas posted!).